#hodayot

Praying by the Holy Spirit in Hodayot

By Pinchas Shir -February 22, 2021 1474 The Hebrew word Hodayot refers to “thanks” or “thanksgiving”. Other names include Thanksgiving Hymns, Thanksgiving Psalms, Hymns Scroll and Scroll of Hymns. The main scroll found in 1947 is designated 1QH a. Other fragments of this text have been found in Caves 1 and 4 (1Q35, 4Q427-432). The text quoted below is known as the Hodayot — “prayers and songs of…

Review of Biblical Literature Newsletter (June 13, 2014)

The latest reviews in the Review of Biblical Literature include:

Jewish Scriptures and Cognate Studies

Jenny R. Labendz, Socratic Torah: Non-Jews in Rabbinic Intellectual Culture, reviewed by Joshua Schwartz

Thomas L. Thompson, Biblical Narrative and Palestine’s History: Changing Perspectives 2, reviewed by Ralph K. Hawkins

New Testament and Cognate Studies

Bruce W. Longenecker, Hearing the…